Song-writing and singing that goes straight to the soul. It'll make you laugh, think and sway. read on:

Elio D'Anna Jr.

Musician, Writer & Producer Elio D'Anna Jr, was born in Tuscany, Italy. Among many other appearances, Elio features at Glastonbury 2008 with D-Code for BBC Radio. His music embraces many styles and cultures, combining strong song-writing with ethnic instrumentation and electronic wizardry.

Rudy

Magical piano dreamscapes support extremely powerful lyrical content, where Cuban rhythms meet an edgy London sound. Just a very unique artist.

Peter Conway

Musically, Peter inhabits a world somewhere between Peter Gabriel, Tom Waits and the freedom encapsulated in an artist like Dylan. Lyrically, however, he's on a different planet altogether. His debut album, Breakthrough, (due next year and variously recorded at Ben Thomas's Victoria studio and with Ian Davenport at Courtyard in Oxford) is a record of shattering depth and substance and has an instant, classic feel, like something you have had knocking around the house for years.

Peter Conway is a special artist. He has a song about dressing up for sex and getting off your face (Honey) and another spiritual, almost gospel song about our hunger for love and friendship (Let It Rain) and I can't think of many artists (apart from, perhaps, Leonard Cohen) who encompass such divergent emotions and thought processes. He's funny too - something you will discover when you meet him - and that should be celebrated. These are strange days indeed but Breakthrough is the sound of someone hitting the ground running.

Nerm

Founder of Shiva Soundsystem, now BBC Radio 1 Presenter, has held club-nights, toured to India, USA, small rooms in Birmingham, big rooms in London, Swaraj, Venezuela, Charged on Nation Records, BBC Asian Network, Serbia in front of 200,000 people and Glastonbury (s)mashing it, DJing all over, falling all over...
Nerm just likes music, really.

LIVE: PETER CONWAY + ELIO D'ANNA JR. + RUDY +

DJ: NERM

7-1

£5 adv, more on the door